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+# Method — The Civic Analyst LLM Loop
+
+## Purpose of the Loop
+
+The Civic Analyst employs AI not as an oracle, but as a **discipline-enforcing partner**.
+The loop ensures that every claim is tested, contextualized, and refined before publication.
+
+The process is designed to:
+
+* Prevent narrative drift.
+* Expose logical gaps and overreach.
+* Preserve the full reasoning chain for public audit.
+
+---
+
+## The Loop: Step by Step
+
+**Claim → LLM → Context → LLM → Civic Consequence**
+
+1. **Claim**
+
+   * State the proposition to test.
+   * Example: “Religious absolutism crowds out institutional capacity.”
+
+2. **LLM (First Pass)**
+
+   * Subject the draft claim to critique.
+   * Identify logical gaps, overstatements, and ambiguities.
+
+3. **Context**
+
+   * Reconstruct the full institutional, historical, and comparative frame.
+   * Gather laws, codes, regulations, and empirical evidence.
+   * Place the claim within its civic setting.
+
+4. **LLM (Second Pass)**
+
+   * Submit the contextualized draft for refinement.
+   * Ensure coherence, clarity, and alignment with Civic Analyst standards.
+
+5. **Civic Consequence**
+
+   * State the implications for governance, law, and public life.
+   * Publish findings with the **full conversation preserved**.
+
+---
+
+## Method of Transparency
+
+* Every loop is a conversation.
+* Drafts, critiques, revisions, and context-building must be preserved.
+* The **conversation itself** becomes part of the civic record, published in
+  `11_Appendix_Conversation.md`.
+
+---
+
+## Standards for the Loop
+
+* **No skipping steps**: Each loop must pass through both LLM critiques and explicit context-building.
+* **No silent edits**: Every revision must be traceable in the transcript.
+* **No shortcuts**: The Analyst cannot collapse context into narrative; transparency is mandatory.
+
+---
+
+## Closing Declaration
+
+This method defines the standard loop for Civic Analyst reports.
+It will not be revised. Any future improvement must come from new analyses published by other Civic Analysts.
+
+---